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Overview

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7.3/10   788 votes
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Director:
Lars von Trier
Writers:
Carl Theodor Dreyer (writer)
Euripides (play)
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Release Date:
1 April 1988 (Denmark) more
Genre:
Drama more
User Comments:
A masterpiece! more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Udo Kier ... Jason
Kirsten Olesen ... Medea
Henning Jensen ... Kreon
Solbjørg Højfeldt ... Ammen
Preben Lerdorff Rye ... Paedragon
Baard Owe ... Aiceus
Ludmilla Glinska ... Glauce
Vera Gebuhr ... Aeldre Terne
Jonny Kilde ... Store Dreng
Richard Kilde ... Lille Dreng
Dick Kaysø ... Jasons Stemme
Mette Munk Plum ... Glauces Stemme
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Austria:75 min | USA:76 min | Argentina:77 min
Country:
Denmark
Language:
Danish
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:13

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Featured in Im Laboratorium des Doktor von Trier: Zurück zur Magie des Kinos (1998) (TV) more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
A masterpiece!, 27 September 2004
10/10
Author: Alexis L'Allier (alexisla80@hotmail.com) from Montreal, Canada

Some people will find it boring, people who don't understand art, even some who study cinema and still want to see a men and a woman falling in love while a nuclear bomb is falling on the USA.

And if they don't see that, if the see something beyond them, greater and bigger than they are, they will find it's boring.

This film is a real masterpiece in every sens of the word. Von Trier, like in Europa and Dogville in particular, put together a real human drama that transcends time with images and cinematography that will take your breath away.

To me, it's Von Trier best work, because unlike Dancer in the dark and Breaking the waves, it's not manipulating too much in the emotion department.

10/10

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